Background selector (#4519)

* UPDATE: select background method

* ADD: migration file for background selector

* Add symlink for background selector in walker-elephant.sh

Forgot about this file. Should be added to make sure the background selector feature available in the fresh install

* clean up the code a bit

Updated omarchy background selector to hide from provider list and removed subtext from entries.

* Make the background selector the default

* Fix migration

* FIX: typo on background symlink target

* UPDATE: add ~/.config/omarchy/backgrounds/theme.name

* UPDATE: Cache = false

* Fix escaping for all extensions

* Extract omarchy-theme-bg-set

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Co-authored-by: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@hey.com>

bin/omarchy-menu

@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ show_style_menu() {
   case $(menu "Style" "󰸌  Theme\n  Font\n  Background\n  Hyprland\n󱄄  Screensaver\n  About") in
   *Theme*) show_theme_menu ;;
   *Font*) show_font_menu ;;
-  *Background*) omarchy-theme-bg-next ;;
+  *Background*) show_background_menu ;;
   *Hyprland*) open_in_editor ~/.config/hypr/looknfeel.conf ;;
   *Screensaver*) open_in_editor ~/.config/omarchy/branding/screensaver.txt ;;
   *About*) open_in_editor ~/.config/omarchy/branding/about.txt ;;
@@ -193,6 +193,10 @@ show_theme_menu() {
   omarchy-launch-walker -m menus:omarchythemes --width 800 --minheight 400
 }
 
+show_background_menu() {
+  omarchy-launch-walker -m menus:omarchyBackgroundSelector
+}
+
 show_font_menu() {
   theme=$(menu "Font" "$(omarchy-font-list)" "--width 350" "$(omarchy-font-current)")
   if [[ "$theme" == "CNCLD" || -z "$theme" ]]; then
@@ -584,6 +588,7 @@ go_to_menu() {
   *learn*) show_learn_menu ;;
   *trigger*) show_trigger_menu ;;
   *share*) show_share_menu ;;
+  *background*) show_background_menu ;;
   *capture*) show_capture_menu ;;
   *style*) show_style_menu ;;
   *theme*) show_theme_menu ;;

bin/omarchy-theme-bg-set

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Sets the specified image as the current background
+
+if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then
+  echo "Usage: omarchy-theme-bg-set <path-to-image>" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+BACKGROUND="$1"
+CURRENT_BACKGROUND_LINK="$HOME/.config/omarchy/current/background"
+
+# Create symlink to the new background
+ln -nsf "$BACKGROUND" "$CURRENT_BACKGROUND_LINK"
+
+# Kill existing swaybg and start new one
+pkill -x swaybg
+setsid uwsm-app -- swaybg -i "$CURRENT_BACKGROUND_LINK" -m fill >/dev/null 2>&1 &

bin/omarchy-theme-set

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ rm -rf "$CURRENT_THEME_PATH"
 mv "$NEXT_THEME_PATH" "$CURRENT_THEME_PATH"
 
 # Store theme name for reference
-echo "$THEME_NAME" > "$HOME/.config/omarchy/current/theme.name"
+echo "$THEME_NAME" >"$HOME/.config/omarchy/current/theme.name"
 
 # Change background with theme
 omarchy-theme-bg-next
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ omarchy-restart-hyprctl
 omarchy-restart-btop
 omarchy-restart-opencode
 omarchy-restart-mako
+omarchy-restart-walker
 
 # Change app-specific themes
 omarchy-theme-set-gnome